Argument Quote by Cornell Capa

The pictures that were coming from Vietnam were showing us what was really happening on the ground level. It was in contradiction to what…

— James Nachtwey

We had much more imagery from Vietnam war. The media was not controlled. The storyline, the master narrative was not controlled. I thin it…

— Anne Waldman

In college, I actually did some work on a documentary project talking to Vietnam vets about the images of war and how it changed.…

— Ron Livingston

Now you may like the images of long-haired hippies running in the streets throwing tear gas canisters, but we didn't end the war. And…

— Bill Ayers

Visual renditions of war not only establish what can be seen, and the audio-track established what can be heard, but the photographs also "train"…

— Judith Butler

I think what it was with the war photography was the concerned eye, the desire to document these situations to show the world the…

— Jamel Shabazz

I think that Vietnam, many of us who served in Vietnam thought that was very wasteful, and to what end? To what end? What…

— Richard Armitage

Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not…

— Marshall McLuhan

In industrialized warfare, where the representation of events outstripped the presentation of facts, the image was starting to gain sway over the object, time…

— Paul Virilio

The [Vietnam] war's gone on for three years. And we'd thought we'd ended it because we'd done exactly what we were told and what…

— Bill Ayers

“I keep thinking about all the kids who got wiped out by seventeen years of war movies before coming to Vietnam to get wiped…

— Michael Herr

Like many Americans, I am still haunted by images from the last days of the United States' withdrawal from Vietnam in 1975. Newscasts showed…

— Jeanne Shaheen